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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHARLES A. LE QUESNE," OF BROOKLYN, NEWYORK, ASSIGNOR TO `FRED- ERICK T. BROWNING, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,584, dated June 28,1881.

Application filed May :21, 1881.

' Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Metallic Spring Bed-Bottoms, of which thefollowing is aspeciication.

This invention relates to that class of bedbottoms for which LettersPatent of the United States were granted to me November 28, 1876, No.184,880 and it consists in a certain novel arrangement of braces, ashereinafter set forth in detail.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 represents a plan or top view, showing the bottom extended.Fig. 2 is a cross-section thereof. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views ofthe braces.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates a series of parallel slats connected together byjointed arms B Vto form an extensible supporting frame or base. Cdesignates coiled springs, fastened to the slats A at their lower ends,and connected together at the top by flexible links b, the outer row ofsprin gs bein g, moreover,connected to top slats, A', and D indicatestransverse bars extending inward from the outer lower slats through eyese applied to one of the lower inner slats. These several parts areconstructed and arranged substantially in the manner shownand describedin my beforementioned Letters Patent, to which reference is made.

To the top bars, A', respectively, and at a point opposite to thetransverse bars D, is fastened one end of a brace, F, which thenceextends. downward substantially parallel to the transverse bars on aninclined plane, and the other or lower end of which is fastened to thetransverse bars at a point beyond the eye or loop e in which the barsslide.

One object of the transverse bars D is to prevent an endwise motion ofthe lower slats, A, and it will be readily perceived that the transversebraces F tend to prevent a like motion of the top slats, A'.

(No model.)

In order to increase the effect of the braces F, I combine therewithcounter-braces G, which are fastened to the top slats, A', and theIbraces F, respectively, at their opposite ends, extending diagonallyfrom one to the other. These counter-braces Gr re-enforce and thusreduce the strain on the braces F, also preventing endwise motion of thetop slats. l

The transverse bars D project outward beyond both the outer lower slats,A, and the top slats, A', as at D', so that when the whole is placed ona bed the projecting portions of the transverse bars meet theside-boards of the bedstead and leave a space between them and the topslats for the reception of the edges of the bed-clothes. Theseprojecting portions Dl of the transverse bars are re-enforced by meansof braces El, which are fastened to the ends of the bars and the outerlower slats, A, at their opposite ends, so that such portions of thebars are not liable to be twisted or broken, and the bars are kept atright angles to the slats, lthe braces thus assisting in preventingendwise motion of the slats.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a bed-bottom, the combination of the lower slats, A, transversebars D, and a series of coiled springs, of the upper side slats, A', andthe inclined braces F, arranged -trans versely to the upper and lowerslats, and havin g their ends connected respectively with the upper sideslats, A', and the outer portions of the transverse bars D, allsubstantially as described.

2. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of thecounter-braces G with the braces F, the transverse bars D, the lowerslats, A, and the top slats, A', for the purpose described.

3. In a spring bed-bottom,^the combination, with the upper side slats,A', and lower slats, A, the latter sustaining a series of coiledsprings, of the transverse bars D, having their A and to the ends of thetransverse bars D, my hand and seal in the presence of two subsubstantially as described. seribing Witnesses.

4. The combination substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of ,thebraces H with the CEAS' A' LE QUESNE' lL' S'] 5 outwardly-projectingtransverse bars D and Witnesses:

the lower slats, A, for the purpose described. J. VAN SANTVOORD,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set GHAS. VAHLERS.

